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Chang(e) Soomi Kim

Funding

Additional support provided in part by an HNYPN Artist Residence at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Change is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Asian Arts Initiative in partnership with HERE, and NPN's Forth Fund. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).

Chang(e) ran from Nov 4-22, 2015 in the Mainstage Theatre.

About the show

Fighting for global social transformation, performance artist and activist Kathy Change (formerly Kathleen Chang) was on a mission to save the world from disaster. As a final act of protest, she self-immolated on the campus of UPenn in October 1996. Chang(e) is a live-staged docudrama that slips between reality and fantasy, plunging viewers inside the mind of Kathy Change. Through a phantasmagorical blend of dance, text (interview and performance transcriptions and Change's own writings), video and original score, Change’s prescient defiance comes to life in this real life account of a modern day "Cassandra."